Um, Zuhl? Really Jon, did you not get the black-frame-nerd-glasses memo? We’re concerned you’re not trying hard enough.
Your nerd might come off as not liking people. Small talk. Those first awkward five minutes when two people are forced to interact. Small talk is the bane of the nerd’s existence because small talk is a combination of aspects of the world that your nerd hates. When your nerd is staring at a stranger, all he’s thinking is, “I have no system for understanding this messy person in front of me”. This is where the shy comes from. This is why nerds hate presenting to crowds.
Places Nerds Have Lived
- The garage (1976)
- The IT lab (1988)
- Mom’s basement (1994)
- The cubicle (1998)
- The foosball room or, like, whatever you want! (1999)
- A smaller cubicle (2001)
- The coffee shop (2004)
- The big, minimalist, DWR-furnished office (2009)
- The garage (2016)
